Labor and environmentalists will not always agree, but the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment (ASJE) believes that both our movements are stronger when we can work together.

Conference AGENDA:
Saturday, April 17, 2004
9:00-9:25 Blue Green Political Perspectives: What’s the lay of the land in the Midwest?
Margaret Blackshere, President, Illinois State AFL-CIO
Jack Darin, Executive Director, Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter
9:30-11:00 Global Trade and Global Justice: Beyond the March to Miami. What’s next?
Max Rameau, Leadership Development Director, Miami Worker Center
Ella Hereth, Coordinator, Chicago Student Labor Action Project
Jessica Aranda, Executive Director, Latino Union of Chicago
Michael Prokosch, United for a Fair Economy
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11:15-12:30 Corporations Make Me Sick
Denise O’Brien, Founder and Coordinator, Women Food and Agriculture Network
Hilary Chiz, Rapid Response Coordinator, PACE International
Bryony Schwan, National Campaigns Director, Womens Voices for the Earth
Bill Yockey, International Representative, United Mine Workers of America
12:30-1:30 Lunch
2:00-2:45 Keynote Speaker: Workers’ Health is Environmental Justice
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O’Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame
BREAK
3:00-4:30 Energy Future: Re-empowering the Midwest
Bracken Hendricks, Executive Director, Apollo Alliance
Kevin Lynch, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Grant Smith, Utility Project Director, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
Mike O’Brien, Steelworker staff rep at Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Direct Action in a Blue/Green setting
John Sellers, Director, the Ruckus Society
Rebecca Hanscom, Midwest Organizer, International Brother of Teamsters
Ann Petermann, Co-director, Global Justice Ecology Project
Mo O’Brien, Montana Medics Network
4:45-5:30 Labor and Environmental Caucuses
Evening Entertainment: Rachel Hicks’ Film on the March to Miami
Sunday, April 18, 2004
9:00 am Welcome and Review
9:10-10:30 Lake Michigan: Its Ecology and Economy
Cheryl Mendoza, Project Manager, Water Conservation, Lake Michigan Federation
Mary Mulligan, Department of Environmental Affairs, City of Gary
Fred Redmond, Assistant Director, USWA District Seven, Gary, Indiana
10:45-11:15 Keynote Speaker: U.S. Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
11:30-12:45 Wal-Mart: An Equal Opportunity Offender
Jim Bakken, Organizing Coordinator, UFCW L. 881
1:00-2:00 Lunch Performance of “Mother Tongue,” featuring Lessa Bouchard of Detroit’s Matrix Theater.
2:00-2:45 Labor 101 Session and Environmental 101 session
2:45-3:00 Conference Wrap up and Closure
For more information, contact Dan Leahy or Jeanne Passarelli at (360) 709-9324 or (360) 402-0441. Emails: leahyd (at) evergreen.edu or j.passarelli (at) comcast.net

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